First of all it should be known that I don't drink, at all. I think it's illogical to put toxins in your body and at this point in my life, it's not required.
So I've told my floormates that drinking alcohol is against my culture. Culture, a word very similar to religion but actually refers to "the characteristics of a particular group of people ". And they respect my decision, whichever meaning they understand it by.
As they drink, I observe. And I've noticed trends and patterns in their, what I've recognised it as, dependence on alcohol.
It's not the entire pattern that I would like to speak on, just the first part - when they decide if they want to drink or not. This step is a logical, sober choice based on desire and priorities. In this choice people have to have a reason to get drunk time and time again.
And that reason is that alcohol simplifies the mind. I often catch myself thinking about and watching my thoughts... for no apparent reason. And I really hate it, it makes me paranoid about what I should be thinking about. Or sometimes I'm afraid of what others are thinking of me. Since alcohol simplifies the mind it would take out these thoughts and allow people to just have fun. It makes them fearless.
And that's why people like it so much. It let's them have fun. And people become dependent on it, thinking that they need alcohol to have fun.
What has this world come to that we have such deranged views of fun?
So I've challenged myself to be fearless, without the drug. I want to be constantly thinking and on top of my game but not be distracted by what others think of me or what I think of myself.
If all these people think that they need alcohol to have fun, then I'm going to have more fun without alcohol.
Innovating Life
~ASKalburgi
